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MS Press is celebrating 25 years, this month they are offering Windows Server TCP/IP Protocols and Services by Joseph Davies If you register your copy of Visual Web Developer Express Edition, or already have registered it, visit the goodies page to get the three free ebooks, the second edition of Introducing Silverlight book (based on v2) is ...

We have a mediocre server in production where usually the scheduled job executor kind of apps get deployed...The machine is also running one Windows Service, coded in C#/.Net, developed by me. My system administrator ranged me saying that i should get it checked as machine' CPU is hitting high most of the time. Debugging (Windows) applications in ...

Last Sunday, I spared some time to manage my eBooks folder. I tried Link Shell Extension, which helped in placing single ebook in multiple folders, avoiding copying the content... Do not forget to read Wikipedia article on NTFS Junctions for some background information!

Last Saturday I was off for the weekend but my machine and few other devices were on. (I occasionally remote desktop my machine if I come across with some nice idea during my off times). We had a lightening that day and it damaged many devices in our lan, including my machine's power supply and its motherboard. My machine is multi-home, its one ...

PHP's latest installer (PHP5) can setup IIS6 to use PHP; there is a small glitch if you install the PHP in the default location which usually is "C:\Program Files\PHP". The installer setup the 8.3 DOS file naming convention for ISAPI mapping for .PHP requests, and the full name in IIS6's Web Server Extension; and you end up getting ...

Hibernation To Hibernate; use >shutdown /h, I cant find any menu for this in Vista atleast here at my workstation! To disable hibernation (to save some diskspace) use >powercfg –h off Windows Desktop Search If UPS is not working; disabling Windows Search is recommended; to avoid any data loss/file-system corruption due to ...

In continuation to my last post on highlighting Snmp Trap, mostly sysadmins uses Snmp based polling; MRTG, RRD etc...such sysadmins might ask why Snmp Traps when we already are polling? Polling is part of “monitoring”; another important pieces are analysis and notification based on this analysis…. With loads of data, analysis becomes ...

Infrastructure Things get changed with time; having solid and generic infrastructure is must….DNS is good thing for this; ACLs should be based on DNS names instead of IPs…We should use “private DNS Servers” for our internal network devices….Use A records for your hosts and CNAME for your ''services'' e-g using snmpagent.yourdomain CNAME in ...

From last few months we have been involved in an interesting project which involved developing different tiers in different platforms. I talked about it earlier too. Data Tier C/C++, Perl, Bash Scripting, mySQL based apps on Unix Classic ASP/SQL Server based apps on Windows Application Service Tier IIS/C#/SQL Server ...

If you have installed Windows Vista and Windows XP both on single machine you must have noticed that Windows Vista has a new boot loader and doestnt use NTLDR/BOOT.INI. I access my machine sometime over Remote Desktop and recently I wanted to specify the default boot order from the command prompt so that on restart I can remote desktop another ...